A six-month-old girl died on Saturday after being left unattended by her father at their Nappi Village, Central Rupununi home.
Dead is Glencia Salvador. Police in a statement said that investigations are being carried out into the circumstances surrounding the death of the baby, which occurred at about 8 pm on Saturday.
Police said that investigations so far revealed that Salvador was in the care of her father, who subsequently left her unattended. She was later found lying motionless by another relative. The baby was taken to the Lethem Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The police are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination, the release said.
if no foul play, do not blame the father, these people still live under primitive ways, education is the key to success.
Education is not a key for a father to take care of a baby…and there is no primitive way to do this…we do not know who is the father as yet….
Lambada,what do you mean?Who are you talking about when you say “these people”?(sigh) I guess migration to the US has done very little for some of us!!!
I AGREE WITH YOU 100%
Primitive conditions? Then more the reason for not leaving the child unattended. Even our closest relatives, the great apes, don’t leave their babies unattended. As Sparrow sang, “Who’s civilized and who’s the… ape?”
sad, sooooooo sad……
SHOULD I SAY HE SHOULD BE CHARGED FOR NEGLEGENCE OR SHOULD I ASSUME THAT THIS MAN DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF AN INFANT, AND BEFORE ANY POSTMORTEM RESULTS CAN BE REACHED I CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT THE CHILD DIED FROM SUFFOCATION.
Yuh ah see far woman?
how do you no that you dont maybe she did but you dont no so dont think your a big head and go round shouting that she died after being suffacated shut upp
A six month old baby left to be cared by the father, why the Little Angel was’t taken, to be cared by an adult female? Where was the mother?
Any how post mortem would reveal cause of death.
now leaving a 6mth old baby unattended is cruel, mindless, stupid, selfish,ect,ect there is no word to discribe a person who does this, even though we have to await the results of the pme, the father is still responsible for her death.
sorry for this poor family…these people are uneducated and suffering to live….lets not jump to conclusion may be the child died from starvation,,,suffication,,,natural cause,,,or foul play…
Looks like a classic case of SIDS. What is hard to understand is why was a six month old baby left unattended for any period of time.
Yevette – What kind of “VOODOO” medicine are you practicing to come to such a conclusion?
Education has nothing to do with leaving the child unattended. Many of the older folks were uneducated but the were careful with their kids. They used COMMON SENSE. Too bad it isn’t common. There is more to that story. So sad for that little angel.
Actually common sense IS education, though not in the formal sense of the word. Common sense is the problem-solving skills we been taught by the culture in which we live and even the most non-literate person has that.
My sympathy to the family.